Sorry, can't help there.  I should have put that story in the context of
being over 10 years ago.  I do know that when I worked for a
manufacturer in the '80's, the drive DOA rate was around 5%, so I guess
you can say that things are 'better'.

Gary 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of William "Chops" 
> Westfield
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 4:20 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE]:: Hard Drive failure rates
> 
> 
> On Feb 24, 2008, at 2:54 PM, gacrowell@micron.com wrote:
> 
> > 2-3% disk drive failure rate [during burn-in]
> 
> What I want to know is how bad is disk failure rate once you're past  
> the initial "this was shipped badly, installed using ESD-ignoring  
> procedures, in a hot case with poor airflow" errors.  I mean, I just  
> had a drive (Seagate, actually) fail (SMART errors, even!) 
> during its  
> initial formatting.  While that's annoying, I don't mind nearly so  
> much as if it had failed after I had moved all sorts of important  
> files to it...
> 
> BillW
> 
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